EvE is tremendously immersive, has a huge world, a living economy, and dozens of things you can be doing at any given time.

What you WILL be doing, however, is spending 99% of your time desperately trying to prevent your ship, assets, and work from being griefed for entertainment by players with 10+ years and three accounts with scripts sitting in-game literally 20 hours a day, 7 days a week. Even if you could defend yourself 1v1, it won't matter because they're paying $60 a month for 3 accounts so they can just kill you effortlessly with 3 ships. Even if you did the same, it would be pointless: the Eve "skill" system is basically paying for a subscription and waiting. They have a 20 year headstart, so their ships will be faster, stronger, and more durable; but if you pay for a subscription for 5 years on 3 accounts, you might have a *chance*.

There are thousands of players with 20,000 hours in the game who literally never log off, have half a dozen accounts and scripts, and will blow up whatever, whenever, literally just for the "fun" of player griefing. They have in-depth knowledge of the rules of space (spoiler: they make no sense), dummy account spies watching & logging all incoming & outgoing traffic, and will abuse and exploit them to the maximum--even losing money--just to grief you in "safer" areas. They openly scam, cheat, lie, and steal in trades and the company endorses it; no joke--literally anything goes except "bad words" in chat. EVE has 1 new ship release a year, that's usually locked behind boring "tournaments" or some obnoxious monthslong grind for special currency in some backwater system.

They've introduced "PvP factions" but make no mistake, everything everywhere at all times is PvP, and 99.9% of the time "PvP" just means someone with absolutely 0 chance of fighting back being obliterated to amuse bored bullies. Everybody will tell you to "join a corporation", but corps are filled with these bored bullies who will pretend to be your friend to proudly backstab, steal, or grief you on other accounts. Then they'll go to Reddit and brag about it to show off to other bored 40 year old bullies.

There is literally no reason to start playing this game in 2024; the company has not fundamentally changed anything about this game in 20 years. You will simply be food for minmaxed rich veterans with third party programs and 3 accounts.